Sunday, February 28, 2016

Love Layout on the Southern Ridge Trading Company Blog

I'm back on my blog today to feature a Mixed Media "Love" Scrapbook Layout for Southern Ridge Trading Company. Our Monthly Challenge this month is all about love, which gave me the perfect amount of inspiration for my piece. Have you joined in in our Monthly Challenge yet? If not, there is still time to add your link to your piece. To view all the details about the Monthly Challenge and how to enter, head over here. With that, I'm excited to share my "Love" Scrapbook Layout and how I created it, so that you can create it at home.

To start my layout, I applied a thin layer of heavy white Gesso randomly in the middle of my patterned paper. Once the Gesso dried, I painted a layer of Dark Velvet and Vintage Rose Acrylic Paint over top of the Gesso.

After both layers of paint had dried, it was time to add some hearts. To do that, I placed my stencil in the middle right of the page, and applied texture paste through two rows of the heart stencil by Tim Holtz. I repeated the same step with the stencil in the middle top left of the page. Once the texture paste hearts had dried, then came the fun part of spritzing my entire page. I used Ginger Coral, Vintage Coal, Pressed Petal and Perfect Pearls Mist to cover the middle, texture paste hearts and parts around the painted middle of the page.

The spritzing will take a while to dry, so I would leave it for at least 2 hours before moving on. Once the spritzing is dry, I used my chicken wire stamp and applied Black Archival Ink to it and slightly stamped over top of the bottom right hand row of hearts and then right over the top of the two top rows of hearts.

I wanted to liven up my Rectangle Scroll Frame so I covered it in a layer of the white Gesso to seal the chipboard. Once the Gesso was dry, I applied two layers of the Dark Velvet Acrylic Paint. Once those two layers of paint dried, I added a layer of Clear Rock Candy Distress Crackle paint over the entire frame. After the crackle paint had dried, I ran my Black Soot Distress Ink overtop of the entire frame. Before the ink dried, I took a piece of paper towel and buffed the ink into the crackled parts.

The next piece I wanted to liven up was the Love Word and a heart so I covered them booth in a layer of the white Gesso to seal the chipboard. Once the Gesso was dry, I applied two layers of the Vintage Rose Acrylic Paint. Once those two layers of paint had dried, I added a layer of Clear Rock Candy Distress Crackle paint over the entire heart and love word. After the crackle paint dried, I ran my Black Soot Distress Ink overtop of the entire heart and love word. Before the ink dried, I took a piece of paper towel and buffed the ink into the crackled parts on both pieces.

For the Heart Scramble background, I sprayed it with two coats of Vintage Coal Colour Bloom.

7 comments:

This a stunning array of Stenciling, stsmping, and chippies! Marvelous design and the details, oh the details! Wowzers! I especially love the hearts and the grungy frame! The colors you used are dreamy. Loves it! I don't know if you enter challenges with this one but it fits perfectly at Anything But Cute for "Grungy Love"! Hugz. ~Niki

Katelyn, I'm so happy you entered this beautiful grungy layout in our Anything but Cute Grungy Love challenge! What fabulous painted details! I am especially drawn to your crusty frame and wonderful use of contrast on the layout! Oh, and those textured hearts...be still my own! Hugs, Sara Emily DT

About Me

Hey Everyone! I’m Katelyn Grosart and I live on beautiful Vancouver Island, BC with my boyfriend of 7 years.
I’ve spent the last 8 years in the papercrafting world, working in a scrapbook store as well as teaching a variety of classes. You’ll find me most of the time in my scrapbook room designing various cards, mixed media pages, scrapbook layouts, mini albums and altered items.
In my spare time I love to read a good book while drinking a green tea latte or London Fog from Starbucks. When I’m not reading, I love to spend time with friends or watch a good movie. When the weather is nice, you’ll often find me outside taking advantage of the beautiful Canadian weather.